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I was on a different forum and we were disucsing the differences betwenn the Trinity and Oneness beliefs, and while talking with another poster who said he believed neither I was trying to pin down what he believed and he posted this.
I believe that Christ has the very nature of his Father, the one true God. When I look to Jesus I see a reflection of the very person of who the Father is
I believe the fulness of the Godhead bodily rests in Christ
I believe he is the one and only true son of the one true God and he was with the Father from the begining
I believe what Christ said
He had glory with the Father before the world begun
I believe the universe was made THROUGH Christ
I believe there is no way to the Father but through the son
I believe that my one and only righteousness for Heaven is faith in the son of God who loved me and gave himself for me
And I believe Christ’s words. There is only one true God, the Father
Now additionally he denies Christ is God in any way shape or form. The closest thing I can find to what he believes is Arianism. So i was hoping maybe someone on here would have a better Idea as to what exactly he believes
 
I agree that it sounds like Arianism, and based on what you posted, it seems that this person’s particular beliefs are contradictory. In particular, I fail to see how the statement “I believe the fullness of the Godhead bodily rests in Christ” can mesh with his denial of Christ being God “in any way, shape or form.”

After all, how can the fullness of Godhead reside in a person who is in no way, shape or form, God?

And how can the fullness of Godhead reside somewhere other than the Godhead, Himself?

I present these as rhetorical questions, but do you know if he has pondered this and has an answer?
 
I was on a different forum and we were disucsing the differences betwenn the Trinity and Oneness beliefs, and while talking with another poster who said he believed neither I was trying to pin down what he believed and he posted this.

Now additionally he denies Christ is God in any way shape or form. The closest thing I can find to what he believes is Arianism. So i was hoping maybe someone on here would have a better Idea as to what exactly he believes
Divinity of Jesus Christ Proved from Scripture

The Bible is clear: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God” (John 1:1). We know Jesus is the Word because John 1:14 tells us, “The Word was made flesh and dwelt among us.” God the Father was not made flesh; it was Jesus. Jesus is the Word, the Word is God, therefore Jesus is God.

In Deuteronomy 10:17 and 1 Timothy 6:15, God the Father is called the “Lord of lords,” yet in other New Testament passages this divine title is applied directly to Jesus. In Revelation 17:14 we read, “They will make war on the Lamb, and the Lamb will conquer them, for he is Lord of lords and King of kings.” And in Revelation 19:13–16, John sees Jesus “clad in a robe dipped in blood, and the name by which he is called is The Word of God. . . . On his thigh he has a name inscribed, King of kings and Lord of lords.”

The fact that Jesus is God is indicated in numerous places in the New Testament. John 5:18 states that Jewish leaders sought to kill Jesus “because he not only broke the Sabbath but also called God his Father, making himself equal with God.” Paul also states that Jesus was equal with God (Phil. 2:6). But if Jesus is equal with the Father, and the Father is a God, then Jesus is a God. Since there is only one God, Jesus and the Father must both be one God—one God in at least two persons (the Holy Spirit, of course, is the third person of the Trinity).

The same is shown in John 8:56–59, where Jesus directly claims to be Yahweh (“I AM”). “‘Your father Abraham rejoiced that he was to see my day; he saw it and was glad.’ The Jews then said to him, ‘You are not yet fifty years old, and you have seen Abraham?’ Jesus said to them, ‘Truly, truly, I say to you, before Abraham was, I AM.’ So they took up stones to throw at him; but Jesus hid himself, and went out of the temple.” Jesus’ audience understood exactly what he was claiming; that is why they picked up rocks to stone him. They considered him to be blaspheming God by claiming to be Yahweh.

The same truth is emphasized elsewhere. Paul stated that we are to live “awaiting our blessed hope, the appearing of the glory of our great God and Savior Jesus Christ” (Titus 2:13). And Peter addressed his second epistle to “those who have obtained a faith of equal standing with ours in the righteousness of our God and Savior Jesus Christ” (2 Pet. 1:1).

Jesus is shown to be God most dramatically when Thomas, finally convinced that Jesus has risen, falls down and exclaims, “My Lord and my God!” (John 20:28)
 
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